Didier Guzzoni (born 1970 in Geneva) is a

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and senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team. He was a founding member and chief scientist at the start-up company Siri Inc. that was later acquired be Apple Inc.

Career

Guzzoni studied

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at the Geneva State Engineering School, followed by studies in computer science at EPFL, where obtained a master's degree in 1996. He then worked with Charles Baur on medical robotics application at EPFL's Virtual Reality and Active Interface group. In 1997, he moved to Silicon Valley to join the SRI International's

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to work with Luc Julia and Adam Cheyer at on artificial intelligence and robotics. Then he was involved in multiple start-ups ranging from mobile robotics to AI-powered B2B platforms, where he collaborated among others with Rajiv Gupta and Shamik Sharma. In 2004, he returned to EPFL to join Charles Baur's laboratory as a PhD student. His research aimed at facilitating the access on complex artificial intelligence techniques by software developers. After his graduation in 2007, together with

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and Dag Kittlaus he cofounded and became chief scientist

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, a start-up company developing a mobile intelligent assistant. The company was acquired in 2010 by Apple Inc., and its technology has been incorporated with most Apple products since 2011. He is a senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team.

Selected works

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References

External links

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Apple Inc.
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